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Digital Union's Future Series

posted 3-21-2008

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The Future of Textbooks

Monday May 5, 3-4:30 pm
Digital Union (370 SEL)

This panel will address the current state of textbooks and the advantages and challenges associated with resources in traditional print form versus digital formats and digital learning environments.

Moderator: Victoria Getis, Director, Digital Union

Panelists:

  • Dr. Scott DeWitt, Associate Professor of English; Director, OSU First-Year Writing Program; Director, Digital Media Project
  • Dr. Steve Rissing, Professor, College of Biological Sciences
  • Dr. Steve Acker, Research Director and Convener, Ohio Board of Regents Collective Action
  • Bob LaBoeuf, Director of Sales and New Business Development for Dispatch Digital

Past Events

Future of the News

Thursday March 27, 1:30-3 pm
Digital Union (370 SEL)

Interested in learning about the future of print journalism? How does online publishing change the public’s relationship to the news? Are RSS feeds and abbreviated headlines leaving Americans less informed about global issues? The Digital Union presents “The Future of the News,” a panel discussion with correspondents from the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times and the Director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at OSU.

Panelists:

  • Debra Jasper, Director of Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism
  • Amanda Zamora, world editor of Washingtonpost.com
  • Terril Jones, technology correspondent for the Los Angeles Times
The Future of Learning

Monday April 14, 9-10:30
Digital Union (370 SEL)

Andrea Saveri, a senior research director from the Institute for the Future will discuss the Map of Future Forces Affecting Education created in conjunction with KnowledgeWorks Foundation in Cincinnati. Saveri focuses on understanding how individuals, organizations and communities make sense of the diffusion of new technologies and media and create new social, cultural, civic, and economic institutions. She will present a detailed look at a collection of factors that will be in play in ten years and discuss ways these will change the nature of learning in higher education by 2016. RSVP to gjestvang.1@osu.edu.

 

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